Hi all, I've decided to abandon the FTD2XX DLL patch I was working on. Mainly after a comment from Xiaofan about my approach actually not avoiding GPL problems: after reading more about the GPL, I believe that there *would* still be an issue.
I would ask, however, that some of you reconsider your responses to my post- there's no need to be snide or dismissive. Even though my patch was wrong-headed AND I screwed up git/gerrit, my heart was in the right place ;-). Now, I've contributed to many open-source projects (even OpenOCD in the past) and I'm not thin-skinned, so it didn't worry me, but I can well imagine that some people would have been turned off the project by your responses. I'll submit a patch to clarify the hacking guide. On 3/03/2014 8:41 p.m., Andreas Fritiofson wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Xiaofan Chen <xiaof...@gmail.com > <mailto:xiaof...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Andreas Fritiofson > <andreas.fritiof...@gmail.com <mailto:andreas.fritiof...@gmail.com>> > wrote: > > > I really don't think we should maintain the ft2232 driver any > > longer. It *wants* to die. > > I support your view as well. On the other hand, apparently there > are people who still want to use the FTDI driver for other utility. > > The other possibility is to help libusb project to improve the support > of libusb-win32 filter driver in the libusb Windows backend. Right now > it does not work for USB Composite device like FT2232x. > > > Yes, there are many different routes to making it work for those people. Us > maintaining the old crappy driver is not the most attractive of them. > > /Andreas The comment "I really don't think we should maintain the ft2232 driver" confused me. Initially I thought it meant that OpenOCD shouldn't support ft2232 *devices*, but now I understand that's not the case. The "ftdi.c" driver is now preferred over the "ft2232.c" driver, correct? I'll look into getting it working on my PC. Perhaps I can write a guide for FTD2XX hold-outs to convert over from the dark side :) Cheers, Rob. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ OpenOCD-devel mailing list OpenOCD-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openocd-devel
